RTI International Announces Launch of Attēgo ESG Impact Solutions

Attēgo is a newly branded division focused on environmental, social and
governance challenges

March 08, 2017 09:00 AM Eastern Standard Time

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--RTI International has launched an independent division called Attēgo ESG
Impact Solutions with the sole focus of providing environmental, social
and governance impact solutions to organizations worldwide.

This division will work with commercial companies to identify
sustainable solutions for large, complex commercial or industrial
projects such as mining operations, energy infrastructure, and
agricultural operations.

Attēgo
will help companies identify and mitigate risks and develop plans that
maximize local economic growth, build local capacity, and minimize
potential negative impacts on the environment and local communities,
ultimately bringing a return on investment to the company.

“RTI is uniquely positioned to provide this integrated solution to
clients across resource-dependent industries,” said Wayne Holden, Ph.D.,
RTI president and CEO. “Launching Attēgo as its own division offers us
the opportunity to extend RTI’s extensive knowledge in environmental
resource planning, local capacity building and large-scale assessments
to the private sector, where we can extend our impact and our mission to
improve the human condition.”

Attēgo will bring together RTI’s social and environmental scientists,
economists, statisticians, development experts, workforce and education
experts, and others to address the complex challenges facing clients
across numerous industries and sectors.

RTI created this new brand to address the need for innovative efforts
around environmental, social and governance issues. The core of Attēgo’s
strategy is in the four pillars of its ESG Impact Solutions: ESG
Assessment, ESG Financial and Impact Optimization, ESG Implementation,
and ESG Validation. Each is designed to address key aspects of impact
projects: environmental, social and governance activities and
investments that benefit stakeholders and that enable successful
operations while also providing a financial return on investment.

These four pillars will enable Attēgo to identify, select, execute, and
track impact projects from the beginning to the end of their life
cycles. Attēgo’s comprehensive services will help to establish and
maintain an organization’s social license to operate, as well as
ensuring both immediate and long-term success for operators and
investors.

“With an ever-evolving global economy and an increasingly transparent
world, companies need a new approach for engaging effectively with local
stakeholders, mitigating risks, and delivering positive returns to their
shareholders,” said Jason Norman, managing director of Attēgo. “RTI
founded Attēgo to address that exact need. It’s a tremendously exciting
time for us at Attēgo: as we launch our new brand we have the depth of
knowledge, talent and resources of RTI to support us.”

Attēgo ESG Impact Solutions include ESG Assessment Solutions that
address the need for comprehensive, integrated information and data to
inform key decisions and to identify and capture all risks and critical
issues, and ESG Financial and Impact Optimization Solutions to enable
the selection and optimization of impact projects so as to accurately
deliver defendable business cases while establishing management and
budgetary support for investments in impact projects over the long term.